First, in medical news, this story on red wine is cause for celebration among the Obliterati. We're not merely going to be healthy. We're going to be immortal. Politics: So let's say the Dems actually take control of the...

Voters should hide the last couple of weeks before an election. They should sprint for cover, put on a disguise, stick their fingers in their ears and go nee-nee-nee-nee-nee. (In other words, what I do year-round.) This is the...

Via Bill McKibben in the NYRB, we learn of a new book from the people at the WorldChanging website, a kind of community blog devoted to solutions for global environmental problems. It appears that these folks have also come...

That extra hour this morning: priceless. We'll pay for it later today, when the afternoon is truncated brutally. But the failure of the sun to come up at a reasonable hour in recent weeks had become irritating. I don'...